Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN, Vista and privilege elevation

To the best of my knowledge you are out of luck unless.
You jump through all the M$ hoops and sign your installer and your
binaries, and if customized your driver. Then figure out the appropriate
catalog and installer parameters to allow the appropriate automagic
escalations.
Not saying I know exactly how to do all this but I am quite confident
that unless you go down this path it's pointless.
Oh... or disable UAC.
C
Quentin Garnier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been rolling out a custom Windows installer of OpenVPN 2.0.9 and
> the GUI to my users for some time now. While OpenVPN does connect on
> Vista, it fails to add the required routes to the internal network,
> which makes it rather useless for my users.
>
> I've been trying to work around that issue today, but so far I've
> failed.
>
> The things I considered:
>
> * route-method exe => requires privilege elevation
> * route-method ipapi => fails with 2.0.9, requires privilege
> elevation with 2.1rc4
>
> At that point, I thought my only solution was to use OpenVPN as a
> service, which means I still need 2.1rc4 to get ipapi working.
>
> Alas, I'm unable to make OpenVPN-as-a-service work with a configuration
> where the private key is password-protected. Simply starting the
> service doesn't work, of course, as it complains about not being able
> to read the passphrase, but what's more worrisome is the GUI failing
> to, I quote, "open OpenVPNService".
>
> Anyone has a solution? The point is to have an installation package
> that ships with my own config and lets the user just click the icon,
> enter the password and connect afterwards.
>
> I'm not afraid of trying diffs, I can probably set up a MinGW
> environment to recompile openvpn.exe pretty easily.
>
> Quentin Garnier.
>
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